Would of/could of/should of

[Getamoveon36]

Please make it stop.

AIBU?

This post is rather self-satisfied, especially given the fact that your post has its own grammatical errors. As you teach English as a foreign language, it might be worth looking up how to use commas appropriately in written English.

The real problem is no-one thinks they need to learn anything. Ever!
Tell someone they need to eat better, read more, explain how to cook cheaply, manage money, write better - and you get a tirade of abuse. (Especially if you're a teacher employed to educate). "My rights, you can't tell me, I won't be told, you're discriminating/ shaming/bullying me".
No-one learns. We have a hugely ignorant population and the results are visible everywhere - but people just blame the government.

@Somethingsnappy

Your post is lovely.

Heard of typos?

Drawring

Mischeeveeus

In American programmes "out of (city)" instead of "from (city)"

Commas in all the wrong places over and over again are not typos. And yours was the original 'lovely post'

60s and 70s.

'On accident' 🤮

The overuse of the word "like" prefixing everything

I saw “unphased” being used instead of “unfazed” in an actual printed book the other day.

Hope YOUR well

I see that someone already mentioned "alot" and "abit", etc.

Not at all wishing to join a pile-on, but can anyone explain how people come to use those?

You would have to override spellchecker on your phone or computer to type "alot", so is that what people are doing? Do they think "a lot" is incorrect so they force it to accept "alot"?

I've also seen people add apostrophes with plurals in some cases and not others in the same post - even the same sentence, on occasion - which, again, I'd be interested to know what the thinking is there? I wondered if perhaps they are thinking that you need an apostrophe if the word ends with a vowel, or something like that?

It's interesting...

Howlers I've seen in books (by big-name publishers, I might add) include 'His eyes were out on storks' and 'Her hair was quaffed to perfection.'

As I'm a copyeditor this causes me actual pain. 😬

Used to drive me utterly round the bend.
But then something switched in my head and now I find it amusing and quite enjoy saying it myself and watching people twitch!
(If only I had of been less swotty in my teen years I could of got this rebellious streak out of my system !)

None of the ones mentioned so far can compete with the worst of the lot...

The smorning.

I shit you not, I've seen it used by several people and it's bizarre!

Never seen this, wtf.

I have seen ‘Bona Petit’ on an IG post of food

@BeingATwatItsABingThing Thank you! Now I understand it I can, and will, forgive it!

OMG.

I hadn't heard that one before.

I think I've lost the will to live.

I have seen a few threads lately where teachers have said they like getting stationary for Christmas gifts. I am always tempted to comment but we are a prickly bunch!

nooooooo! That’s almost brilliant

I saw 'que' on a thread here earlier this week

@GasDrivenNun and they repeated que about a hundred times in their post!

You've not bothered reading this thread, have you? 😅

@Somethingsnappy

Lost your usual punchbag for the night have we?

How these posts end up with people like you picking a fight never ceases to amaze me.

WHY is it so hard for people to get right? (Yes I’m aware the origin is incorrectly hearing ’ve as of).
My new bug bear is his/he's used the wrong way round eg “his off to work at he’s new job”, I’m seeing it all the time now - WTAF.

Of course I meant bugbear, before anyone delights in correcting me.